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SWI Towns Anticipate I-29 Opening - More Housing, Business Expected
This Is The End Of The Paving . . . of Interstate 29 a mile north of Bartlett. The 10-mile stretch south of Council Bluffs to Highway 34, just south of Pacific Junction, is due to open sometime this week, say Iowa Highway Commission officials. The…
SWI Girl New Miss America
Iowa Native . . . Rebecca Ann King, Miss Colorado, walks down the runway after being named Miss America at Atlantic City, N.J. She is formerly from Hancock. - AP Wirephoto
SWI Courthouses Added To List
Showing The Signs . . . of its sandblasting in the late 1970s, Harrison County Courthouse looks like new. The concrete and steel building is faced with Bedford limestone and topped with a 78-foot dome.
Sweethearts Come To C.B.
New at the Beresheim House, 621 Third St., is W. Dendy Sadler's painting "Sweetheart Still." Sadler (1854-1923) created the oil painting, valued at $10,000, in the late 19th or early 20th century after studying in London. It is the gift of Mr. and…
Swans in Fairmount Park
Photograph of swans in the pond at Fairmount Park.
Survivor Of Fatal Crash Recovering; Five Youths Killed
Kathleen Bertelsen [school photo]
Survivor Of Fatal Crash Recovering; Five Youths Killed
Maxine Burbridge [school photo]
Survivor Of Fatal Crash Recovering; Five Youths Killed
Michael Ramirez [school photo]
Survivor Of Fatal Crash Recovering; Five Youths Killed
Lewis Keairnes [school photo]
Survivor Of Fatal Crash Recovering; Five Youths Killed
Edward Greer (school photo)
Surveyors want to recruit help
Discussing territories...being mapped out for religious survey are Larry Roberts of Epworth United Methodist Church and chairman of the survey committee, the Rev. Richard Kilgore, pastor of Broadway Christian Church, and Dale Halvorson of Shepherd of…
Supervisors delay Hitchcock decision
Boston-area businessman Michael Angel, formerly of Underwood, gestures while speaking at a Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors public hearing Monday. -Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki.
Superroad Programs Receive Sample Of November's Freeze - Bridge, Paving Set Back
On The Way To Bellevue, Neb. . . . motorists traveling west on Highway 370 south of Council Bluffs will pass over this soon-to-be-completed bridge. Interstate 29, that will eventually link Kansas City and points south with Council Bluffs, will run…
Supermarket Design
The plans for this new supermarket at Twenty-eighth St. and West Broadway were revealed Saturday by Hinky-Dinky Stores of Omaha. Grading for the $300,000 structure has been started. The store will open late in the spring of 1957 and employ 100…
Superintendent Welcomed
Greeting . . . the new Council Bluffs Schools superintendent, Dr. William L. Lepley, is School Board veteran member Kenneth Petersen (left). Petersen has been on the board for six years and is the longest standing member. Lepley started his Bluffs…
Sunset Silhouette
When the sun set west of this farm near Quick, cold rays bold-trimmed the clouds that cry of winter as they cross the Iowa sky. And the feed-stocked silo raised a stiff, silent finger in defense.
Sunset At Manawa
Stretching toward a lost horizon, ice locked Lake Manawa reflects a dying December sunset in this view from the northeast shore. Half shrouded by the cold gloom, deserted Campbell's boat dock waits in vain for fair weather fishermen to come and…
Sunset At Lake Manawa
Hundreds of persons daily find the receded shoreline at Lake Manawa a good place to relax and enjoy the beauties of nature. Especially during the evening hours, many fishermen drive right down to the water's edge. Here a lone fisherman holds down a…
Sunset at Lake Manawa
Hundreds of person daily find the receded shoreline at Lake Manawa a good place to relax and enjoy the beauties of nature. Especially during the evening hours, many fishermen drive right down to the water's edge. Here a lone fisherman holds down a…